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Crimes of Richard Burt
Ambassador to GelTIlany celebrates INF
with 'psychological disanner' of U. s.
by Mark Burdman and Gabriele Liebig
On Dec. 8, as the INF treaty was being signed by Ronald
of-inquisition, to target enemies of detente in the media. The
Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachov in Washington, the U.S.
core of this is a joint U.S.-Soviet campaign, to attack "the
ambassador to West Germany, Richard Burt, was hosting a
image of the enemy" as it appears in their respective media,
delegation of leaders of the West German "peace movement"
and in the minds of the respective populations. While Wick
at the American embassy in Bonn, to celebrate the treaty
euphorically portrays the new commission as an example of
signing. One peace movement leader in attendance was a
bipolar superpower cooperation, it is, from the outset, a
certain Dr. Horst -Eberhard Richter, director of the center for
totally one-sided initiative, especially as the Soviets have no
psychosomatic medicine at the Clinic of Justus-Liebig Uni­
such thing as a "private" political operation or private press,
versity in Giessen, West Germany.
while the United States does, even if such operations and
Richter's presence and reported enthusiastic greeting from
journals are increasingly subjected to totalitarian-modeled
Burt symbolizes, as much as any recent event, the evil of the
persecution from the U.S. government. Also, the cultural
INF treaty they were celebrating together. He is a Soviet
matrix of "Holy Mother Russia" is itself founded on hostility
asset, being the president of the West German branch of the
("enemy image") to the West. The Armand Hammer-asso­
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
ciated Wick is simply complicit in an operation to unilaterally
(IPPNW), a Soviet-government run operation that is funded,
disarm the West, morally and psychologically-exactly as
in part, by Occidentral Petroleum multibillionaire Armand
laid out in Horst-Eberhard Richter's writings.
Hammer. Richter is opposed, with an emotional passion that
Richter is an integral part of the Wick-Soviet operation.
borders on religious fervor, to the values of Western Judeo­
He is the main European advisory board member of a task­
Christian civilization, and to the commitment to progress and
force of the Harvard Medical School's Center for Psycholog­
scientific and technological development of the populations
ical Studies in the Nuclear Age, which coordinates joint East­
of the United States and of his native Germany. He advocates
West projects "attacking the enemy image." The Harvard
surrender to Mother Russia with the same passion.
That Burt would host Richter, confirms EIR's assertion
Center's work grew, in part, from U.S. -Soviet cultural agree­
ments worked out between Wick and Gorbachov's violently
that Burt's commitment, as ambassador in Bonn, is to wreck
anti-American propaganda chief, Aleksandr Yakovlev, dur­
the German-American relationship. Certainly, Burt knows
ing the October, 1986 Reykjavik summit. Its activities over­
the implications of the INF treaty, in undermining transatlan­
lap those of the Hammer-funded IPPNW. One of its advisory
tic relations and weakening the moral-cultural fiber of the
board members is Galina Andreyeva, who chairs the depart­
West. Burt, as a chief official of the London International
ment of social psychology at Moscow University.
Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) during the 1970s, pre­
Richter is one of the authors of the concept of "attacking
pared strategic papers which helped create laying the concep­
the enemy image," a crude English adapation from the Ger­
tual framework for what later became known as the "zero
man word Feindbild, image, or picture, of the enemy. Un­
option," or the "treaty on Intermediate Nuclear Forces."
But Burt, in this case, is not acting as a lone operative.
dermining the "enemy image" in the West, has become one
of the focal points of the Gorbachov-era Soviet assaults on
During the Reagan-Gorbachov summit the week of Dec. 7,
the West, for one simple reason: If Western populations can
the U.S. and the Soviets reached an agreement, mediated
be induced to believe that the U.S.S.R. is no longer the
between U.S. Information Agency head Charles Z. Wick and
"enemy," why would they have militaries?
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chological disarmament," and attack those who believe in a
threat from the Soviet Union, as suffering from "collective
paranoia."
It is this, that Burt is supporting.After meeting Burt Dec.
8, Richter later told a confidant: "The American ambassador
is interested in my work. Up to now, the question of the
'enemy image' did not interest most official Americans.The
Russians have always been far more interested in this. With
the INF treaty, things have changed. ...Now, the Ameri­
like "beyond good and evil," it should. In his autobiography,
Richter describes
Beyond Good and Evil author Friedrich
Nietzsche as the idol of his yooth, and Russian writer Fyodor
Dostoevsky as his favorite poet. These are the two philo­
sophical-literary founding fathers of the past
100 years' "New
Age"I"Age of Aquarius" movement against Western Judeo­
Christian civilization.
As pertains to the Russians:
In the view of conservative experts in psychology in West
must respect the peace movement. In previous years,
Germany, Richter suffers from a severe version of what is
they were not interested, because they thought the peace
called the "Bettelheim Syndrbme," or what Anna Freud la-
cans
movement was against them, and in favor of the Russians.
But now that Reagan has signed the INF treaty, more contacts
between American officialdom and the peace movement will
happen, I am sure."
With Richter, however, the matter hits a point of emo­
tional fanaticism that borders on the incredible. In the future,
EIR will be publishing a comprehensive study of his psy­
For Richter, the "enemy image"
problem does not begin with the
Cold War and Western attitudes
chology and writings. For the moment, a few salient points
toward the Russians. It begins at a
can be summarized.
morefundamental level, with the
For Richter, the "enemy image" problem does not begin
with the Cold War and Western attitudes toward the Rus­
fact that human ,?eings have a
sians. It begins at a more fundamental level, with the fact
tendency tojight death and
that human beings have a tendency to fight death and disease.
disease.
These become "enemies," and set in the mind, a habituated
tendency to think in terms of "enemy image." The solution:
Accommodate to death and disease!
1981 book, "feel
beled "the identification with the threatening adversary." In
oppressed" by our activities as "fighters against viruses, bac­
his case, he was a young German soldier in Russia during the
"We physicians," he complained in a
teria, metabolic poisons, and cancer, as if we shall fight a
Second World War. When he,returned home at the age of22 ,
victorious crucial battle against an evil dragon. And this we
both his parents had been knifed to death by drunken Soviet
shall do with the 'wonder-weapons' of the laser beam, or the
soldiers. So broken psychologically was Richter by accounts
total preventive inoculation, with the implantation of artifi­
of what his mother had to suffer before being killed, that he
cial or natural organs, and, at the end, maybe even with
suffered a psychological breakdown, and could no longer
genetic manipulations. With automatized diagnostic and
sustain the idea of the Russians as aggressors. Richter's hid­
therapeutic machines, we shall, in addition, eradicate error
den psycho-political message,vis-a-vis the Russians is: If you
and technical mistakes." Not surprisingly, all the "wonder­
don't capitulate to the overwhelming enemy, the Soviet Union,
weapons" named are important in the fight against AIDS, as
then Mother Russia will sm�sh you inevitably. But if you
well as in SDI research.
overcome your paranoid "e�emy image," if you submit to
As for death: "The latent inhumanity of our medicine
Russia, and thus make good ;the German guilt from the last
today, is that it defames death in general as the enemy, and
war, then Mother Russia w�ll take you mercifully to her
sees its main significance in preventing it." Or: The preven­
bosom.
tion of death or the postponement of death is just "vainly
From this, he and others, must attack that which
causes
running up against an overwhelming aggressor that will
enemy images, especially the nuclear family, which is de­
someday leave you behind, anyway, smashed."
scribed as "authoritarian." �e and collaborators have en­
How far from this, to the propaganda of the International
couraged "alternative" structures, such as communes and
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, as expressed
"anti-authoritarian education." with heavy emphasis on sex­
in an IPPNW ad of May
5, 1985, written in commemoration
8, 1945 victory over
Nazism? "We see in May 8, 1985, a proper occasion to recall
ualizing small children, promotion of homosexuality, etc.
of the 40th anniversary of the May
He also expressed sympathy for "mental patients' collec­
harshly the dangers of that evil spirit, which still continues
late West German psychoanalyst Aleksander Mitscherlich
with the tendency to defame the outside enemy in general as
was one of Richter's key collaborators in such efforts.
the devil."
tives," which became breeding grounds for terrorism. The
Mitscherlich's wife, Margareta, appeared on German tele­
And, of course, Richter is against abhorring the devil, or
vision during 1987 to say that she would be perfectly content
evil, because this too calls up "enemy images." If this sounds
to see the German population die out, because of the "crimes
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against humanity" committed by Germans in recent history!
Richter's treason against his native country goes so far,
that he has recently begun a project, together with the afore­
mentioned Moscow social psychologist Galina Andreyeva,
to analyze "the stereotypes of the West German population,
their self-images and enemy images." This is part of his
broader work on what he calls "scapegoat projection." An­
dreyeva is experienced in international gnostic operations.
She is the Soviet representative to the United Nations Orga­
nization's Women's International Committee on Culture and
Education (WICCE), which backs feminist-witchcraft proj­
ects around the world.
As much as they direct their brainwashing at Germans, it
is not Germans alone who are the targets. The Harvard Med­
ical School task force has one project focusing on U.S. SOl
supporters, who, they complain, have seized the moral high
ground, by using the SDI as a symbol of the "restoration of
America" and to attack the notion of "limits." They advise
that "memories of the
Challenger and Chernobyl disasters"
be used to combat the "dangers of technological hubris."
One Richter colleague in Hamburg states that the basic
problem, in "attacking the enemy image" in the minds of
Americans, is that this requires destroying the deeply nur­
tured notion that the United States has a special historical
role to play in the world. He says: "The American popula­
tion's image of the United States is to be Number One. They
have this image for themselves, and so, of course, the Rus­
sians should be Number Two. Now, with the new INF agree­
ment, you can't have both this agreement and this belief­
structure. You can't insist on being Number One, and still
reach such an agreement with 'the enemy.' So, the American .
population has to go through a difficult process of new psy­
chological reaction-formations, and this will have to be man­
aged."
Such
are
the words spoken by the new friends of Mr.
Richard Burt.
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8, 1988
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